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In cancer radiotherapy, inverse treatment planning is a multi-objective optimization problem. There exists a set of plans with various trade-offs on Pareto surface which are referred as Pareto optimal plans. Currently exploring such trade-offs, i.e., physician preference is a trial and error process and often time-consuming. Therefore, it is desirable to predict desired Pareto optimal plans in an efficient way before treatment planning. The predicted plans can be used as references for dosimetrists to rapidly achieve a clinically acceptable plan. Clinically the dose volume histogram (DVH) is a useful tool that can visually indicate the specific dose received by each certain volume percentage which is supposed to describe different trade-offs. Consequently, we have proposed a deep learning method based on patient’s anatomy and DVH information to predict the individualized 3D dose distribution. Qualitative measurements have showed analogous dose distributions and DVH curves compared to the true dose distribution. Quantitative measurements have demonstrated that our model can precisely predict the dose distribution with various trade-offs for different patients, with the largest mean and max dose differences between true dose and predicted dose for all critical structures no more than 1.7% of the prescription dose.
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Ma, J. et al. (2019). Individualized 3D Dose Distribution Prediction Using Deep Learning. In: Nguyen, D., Xing, L., Jiang, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Therapy. AIRT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11850. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32486-5_14
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